Shutter-bower.



F. RHUMPHREY & HQ PATRICK SHUTTER BOWER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29. 1909.

Patented May 3, 1 910;-

nnnan stains Parana snares I FRANK E. HUMPHEEY AND FRANK H. PATRICK, OFs'r. JOHNSBURY, vnmvionm.

SHUTTER-BO'WER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK E. I'ltUDL PHREY and FRANK H. PATRICK,citizens of the United States, residing at St. Johnsbury, in the countyof Caledonia, State of Verinont, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Shutter-Bowers, of which the following is a description,reference being had to'the accompanying drawing and .10 the letters ofreference niarked thereon.

f Our invention relates to improvements in swinging outside windows,operating the same, and'locking thorn in their closed posidow casingwhich may he of any usual or well known construction, and B is aswinging outside casement window. Screwed to each side of the windowusing at the lower part, are brackets G in which are pivoted one end ofslotted bars I), through the slots in which pass headed screw threadedbolts.

E adapted to receive on the threaded end, the thumb nuts l Thesethreaded bolts E also pass through an opening in the end of the bar (l,having pivotal connection at the opposite end with the angle pieces f,secured to the window frame. 1

The two bars D, and G, form a sort of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 28, 1909.

Patented May 3, 1910.

Serial No. 530,424.

.-to secure by Letters Patent is:

adjustable toggle lever adjustment, and by sliding the pivotbolt E inthe slot of the bar I), and tightening up the hand nut F,

the window can be held to any position to which. it may be adjusted.

As a. vnieans for locking the window in closed position, a, curvedlateral shoulderg is prorided on the slotted bar D, and pivoted to thebar G is catch it which can be swung around over the shoulder g, andthus lock the window in closed position, as shown clearly in Fig. l.

The angle piece 7 has its pivotal opening for the bar it formed with atransverse slot and the pivot 2' has a key projection adapted to litinto said slot for the insertion and removal of the har G as shown inFig. 2.

l-laving thus particularly describedour in vention. what we claim as newand desire The conihination with a'window casing and a swinging window,a slotted bar pivoted at one end to the window casing, 21 second barpivoted to the window and having an adjustable sliding andpivotalconneetion with tllflSlOitCd bar, a lateral shoulder on theslotted bar adjacent the pivot point thereof, and a pivoted'catch'on thesecond har adapted to engage with the shoulder when the window is inclosed posi tion. i

In testimony whereof we atfix our signatures, in presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK E. HUMPHREY'. FRANK H. PATRICK. Witnesses WALTER P. SMITH, JAMESB. CAMPBELL.

